Executive Assistant to CEO

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🦁 Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👨‍💼 Executive Assistant

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Zipline

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📣 Marketing

✈️ Travel

💰 $330M Series F on 2023-04

Food & Beverage • Marketing • Travel

Zipline is a leading provider of autonomous drone delivery services, revolutionizing logistics for various sectors including healthcare, restaurants, and retail. Their innovative technology allows for rapid and emission-free deliveries, significantly reducing the time required to transport goods such as food, medical supplies, and everyday essentials. Since their inception, Zipline has completed over a million deliveries across multiple countries, showcasing their commitment to improving delivery experiences and enhancing access to critical supplies.

📋 Description

• Partner directly with the CEO to manage her calendar, priorities, commitments, and operating cadence across Africa • Own complex calendar management and focus the CEO’s time on high-impact priorities • Prepare the CEO for meetings with agendas, context, briefing materials, decisions, questions, stakeholders, and follow-ups • Coordinate executive meetings, leadership forums, operational reviews, external engagements, and critical business meetings • Track follow-ups and commitments, capturing decisions, owners, deadlines, and next steps • Manage the CEO’s internal and external relationships through timely responses, preparation, and follow-through • Coordinate complex domestic and international travel, including itineraries, visas, logistics, schedules, and contingency planning • Support engagements with government officials, healthcare partners, customers, investors, and other stakeholders • Support recruiting and hiring activities, including interview scheduling, candidate coordination, debriefs, and confidential follow-up • Prepare presentations, briefing documents, meeting notes, and executive communications • Surface priorities, deadlines, risks, and conflicts requiring the CEO’s attention • Represent the CEO professionally and exercise discretion and sound judgment • Improve management of the CEO’s time, information, meetings, and follow-through • Act as a trusted partner and connector across the Africa leadership team and Zipline organization

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, ideally supporting a CEO, executive, country leader, general manager, or other senior leader in a fast-paced organization • Exceptional judgment and discretion when handling confidential executive, people, commercial, government, and operational information • Excellent calendar, meeting, travel, and logistics management skills in a high-velocity environment with constantly shifting priorities • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with senior internal and external stakeholders • High ownership and follow-through • Strong prioritization instincts and ability to protect executive focus while responding to urgent business needs • Comfort operating across multiple countries, cultures, and time zones • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail • Ability to anticipate needs, identify issues early, and proactively solve problems • Confidence working with senior executives, government stakeholders, customers, partners, employees, and cross-functional teams • Service-oriented mindset with backbone • Energy, resilience, and enthusiasm for supporting Africa operations